News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Skagway -Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park will host three artist outreach talks to celebrate the experience of this year's Artists in Residence on the Chilkoot Trail. All events are free and open to the public.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Enclosed below are Ranking Member Diana DeGette's remarks as prepared for delivery at the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled "The ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program: Ramifications of the Administration’s Decision on the Source of Funding for the CSR Program":
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Former Minnesota National Guardsman Sentenced to 210 Months in Prison for Production of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: JD Rowell (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) joined members of the Congressional Black Caucus at a press conference today to denounce the slayings of police officers in Dallas, and the slayings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota. Below are Congressman Conyers’ remarks as prepared for delivery...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 151 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime supervised release, on a charge of distribution of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRACY NICHELSON, age 42, a resident of Metairie was charged today in a Bill of Information with one count of bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) today reviewed the concept design for a new White House fence as submitted by the United States Secret Service (USSS) and National Park Service (NPS). The same design was reviewed and given concept approval by the Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) on June 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a $13 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos in Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 In connection with the latest monthly release of numbers of apprehensions on the southwest border, Secretary Johnson made the following statement: “In June 2016, apprehensions by the Border Patrol on our southwest border – an indicator of total ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 7, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is awarding $44.6 million through its Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership to support 10 wetland enhancement projects on private and tribal agricultural lands in 12 States. Recipients for each project are providing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it is returning approximately $1.5 million to Taiwan, the proceeds of the sale of a forfeited New York condominium and a Virginia residence that the United States alleged in its complaint were purchased with the proceeds of bribes paid to the family of Taiwan’s former President Chen Shui-Bian.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Chicago, Illinois, returned an indictment, which was unsealed yesterday, charging four Chicago-area residents with conspiracy to commit theft of government money, wire fraud, theft of government money, aggravated identity theft and access device fraud, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Defendant was Directed to Launch Attacks by Deceased ISIL Recruiter Junaid Hussain Munir Abdulkader, 21, of West Chester, Ohio, pleaded guilty to attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States, providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Seven Los Angeles men were charged in a 10-count indictment unsealed today with participating in the 2014 firebombing of residences of African Americans living in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. The defendants were also charged for their roles in a racketeering enterprise that used violence ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: A former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleebank B.A. (Rabobank) derivatives trader, who worked in Hong Kong and Singapore as the bank’s Head of Money Market and Derivatives Trading for Northeast Asia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud for his role in a scheme ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Knowingly Presented False Claims and Altered Records to Get False Claims Paid Will Pay Millions to Settle Allegations MD2U Holding Company, including its related companies and individually named owners, have agreed to pay millions to resolve a government lawsuit alleging that they violated the federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: An Oregon, Ohio, psychiatrist pleaded guilty to tax evasion today in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Formalizing its prior commitment to facilitate the orderly implementation of section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Act, commonly known as the Volcker Rule, the Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that it will extend until July 21, 2017 the conformance period for banking entities to divest ownership in ...
